Welcome to Sacred Heart Church, Bilton, Rugby. We are a Roman Catholic parish, part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Our parish priest is Father Gerry Murray. Weekend Masses are on Saturdays at 5pm and on Sundays at 9.30am (with children’s liturgy). This is our mission statement:

Sacred Heart Catholic Parish, Rugby is a Eucharistic community responding to God’s universal call to holiness by witnessing to Gospel values. Inspired by the Holy Spirit we welcome everyone, we worship together, we care for other people and for the environment, and we work for the common good in our community.

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We have now managed successfully to launch a streamed Mass instead of recorded Mass from Sacred Heart. So instead of recorded, we will now be switching to live streaming. You may have to allow a few minutes at the advertised starting time and wait until it goes live.

Sunday Mass will be live at 9.30am. You are invited to join us. You can also watch it later as a recording.

Weekday Mass will be live at 10am. This Mass is available later as a recording. Note this week there will be no Mass on Thursday 11th June.

Fr Gerry and Fr Graham are keeping well and looking forward to meeting you all again when the situation improves. Plans are going ahead slowly for the opening of Churches for private prayer and we will let you know when the diocese has plans in place for this. Please remember us in your prayers as we remember you in our prayers and Masses.

The services can also be watched at a later time on YouTube in case you aren’t able to join the live broadcast.

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Here is the Mass for the Feast of Pentecost from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton. Greetings from Father Gerry and Father Graham.

Weekday Masses go live at 7pm and Sunday Mass at 9.30 am. Of course you can watch them at any time after this at your convenience. Find on YouTube by searching sacred heart, bilton. If you click subscribe then the item should be easier to find next time. There are many other options for streamed and recorded Masses on the internet. There are links to the recent Sunday Masses on this website below.

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Here is the Mass for the Seventh Sunday of Easter from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton. Greetings from Father Gerry and Father Graham.

Weekday Masses go live at 7pm and Sunday Mass at 9.30 am. Of course you can watch them at any time after this at your convenience. Find on YouTube by searching sacred heart, bilton. If you click subscribe then the item should be easier to find next time. There are many other options for streamed and recorded Masses on the internet. There are links to the recent Sunday Masses on this website below.

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Here is the Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton. Greetings from Father Gerry and Father Graham.

Weekday Masses go live at 7pm and Sunday Mass at 9.30 am. Of course you can watch them at any time after this at your convenience. Find on YouTube by searching sacred heart, bilton. If you click subscribe then the item should be easier to find next time. There are many other options for streamed and recorded Masses on the internet. There are links to the recent Sunday Masses on this website below.

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Here is the Mass for the Fifth Sunday of Easter from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton. Greetings from Father Gerry and Father Graham.

Weekday Masses go live at 7pm and Sunday Mass at 9.30 am. Of course you can watch them at any time after this at your convenience. Find on YouTube by searching sacred heart, bilton. If you click subscribe then the item should be easier to find next time. There are many other options for streamed and recorded Masses on the internet. There are links to the recent Sunday Masses on this website below.

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Here is the Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Easter from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton. Greetings from Father Gerry and Father Graham.

Weekday Masses go live at 7pm and Sunday Mass at 9.30 am. Of course you can watch them at any time after this at your convenience. Find on YouTube by searching sacred heart, bilton. If you click subscribe then the item should be easier to find next time. There are many other options for streamed and recorded Masses on the internet. There are links to the recent Sunday Masses on this website below.

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Here is an update from Father Gerry and Father Graham to all parishioners.

Hope everyone is keeping well and safe. We continue to remember in our prayers and Masses those suffering in the pandemic, those working in the health and caring services and those who have died and their grieving families and friends.

Masses from the Parish

As many of you will know we have been recording and putting on YouTube our Masses on Weekdays and Sundays. Once celebrated they are uploaded to YouTube as soon as possible, the process takes a little time.

Weekday Masses go live at 7pm and Sunday Mass at 9.30 am. Of course you can watch them at any time after this at your convenience. Find on YouTube by searching sacred heart, bilton. If you click subscribe then the item should be easier to find next time. Each service is in two parts because of the capacity of the camera we are using. It has been giving clear pictures and sound. Of course there are many other options for streamed and recorded Masses on the internet . There are links to the recent Sunday Masses on the parish website,

Next week Fr Gerry will take two Cremation Services on Monday and Tuesday in the new simplified form for two elderly people who have died. Please pray for them and their families at this distressing time.

Please share this information with others who may be interested. I hope you may find this helpful. We now have a parish What’s App Group for spiritual support and information. Please contact us for details on how to join, you would be very welcome.

May the Risen Lord continue to bless us and keep us safe as we continue our journey through Eastertide.

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Here is Mass celebrated for the Second Sunday of Easter by Father Gerry and Father Graham.

You can find the other streamed live Triduum Services, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil celebrated by Archbishop Bernard at St Chad’s Cathedral on birminghamdiocese.org.uk where other options are available.

Please share this information with others who may be interested. I hope you may find this helpful. We now have a parish What’s App Group for spiritual support and information. Please contact us for details.

Be assured of our closeness to you in our Masses and prayers offered each day. Please pray for us. Pray for all who have died, who are suffering and affected in different ways by the present crisis. Pray for all health workers and care workers. May we support and help one another in any way we can.

May the peace and joy of the Risen Lord be with you as we celebrate this Easter.

Act of Spiritual Communion – Prayer of St Alphonsus

My Jesus,I believe you are present in this Holy Sacrament of the altar.I love you above all things and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul.Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally,Come spiritually into my soulSo that I may unite myself wholly to you now and forever.Amen.

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Happy Easter! Christ is Risen! Here is the first part of the Easter Sunday Mass from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton celebrated by Father Gerry and Father Graham.

Here is the second part of the Easter Day Mass, celebrated on April 12th 2020.

You can find the other streamed live Triduum Services, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil celebrated by Archbishop Bernard at St Chad’s Cathedral on birminghamdiocese.org.uk where other options are available.

Please share this information with others who may be interested. I hope you may find this helpful. We now have a parish What’s App Group for spiritual support and information. Please contact us for details.

Be assured of our closeness to you in our Masses and prayers offered each day. Please pray for us. Pray for all who have died, who are suffering and affected in different ways by the present crisis. Pray for all health workers and care workers. May we support and help one another in any way we can.

May the peace and joy of the Risen Lord be with you as we celebrate this Easter.

Act of Spiritual Communion – Prayer of St Alphonsus

My Jesus,I believe you are present in this Holy Sacrament of the altar.I love you above all things and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul.Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally,Come spiritually into my soulSo that I may unite myself wholly to you now and forever.Amen.

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Part 1 of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper celebrated on April 9th, 2020.

Part 2 of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, celebrated on April 9th 2020.

Here are the latest videos from Sacred Heart Church, showing the celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper.

Fr Graham and Fr Gerry have been trying to provide online live streaming of the Masses from Sacred Heart Church, Bilton, Rugby. Technical difficulties have prevented us from doing this.

However we are now going to record certain Masses and put them immediately on YouTube so you can access them shortly after they have been celebrated. Some of this week’s Masses are there already.

Follow this link to Youtube. If you subscribe then you can find the link more easily another time. The key search words are Sacred Heart, Bilton.

Here are some of the Masses from earlier in Holy Week.

Mass for Wednesday of Holy Week

EASTER SUNDAY. Morning Mass will be on YouTube by 11am or shortly after.

You can find the other streamed live Triduum Services, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil celebrated by Archbishop Bernard at St Chad’s Cathedral on birminghamdiocese.org.uk where other options are available.

Please share this information with others who may be interested. I hope you may find this helpful. We now have a parish What’s App Group for spiritual support and information. Please contact us for details.

Be assured of our closeness to you in our Masses and prayers offered each day. Please pray for us. Pray for all who have died, who are suffering and affected in different ways by the present crisis. Pray for all health workers and care workers. May we support and help one another in any way we can.

May the peace and joy of the Risen Lord be with you as we celebrate this Easter.

Act of Spiritual Communion – Prayer of St Alphonsus

My Jesus,I believe you are present in this Holy Sacrament of the altar.I love you above all things and I passionately desire to receive you into my soul.Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally,Come spiritually into my soulSo that I may unite myself wholly to you now and forever.Amen.

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